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March 4, 2010

City switching insurance administrators to save $1 million

There is a special Board of Finance meeting at 5:30 today to consider whether the city should dump Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield as the administrator of its health care spending. The move is expected to save nearly $1 million annually. For the story, click here.
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19 comments:

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Are you trying to make us believe that ONLY Anthem has computer problems? Are they saving money on the administrative costs, because the jobs are out of state or off shore? In either case - it's not good for Bristol or CT in the long run.

3:03 - now you are unhappy that the city is saving over 1 million dollars? U are one idiotic simpleton - what were they supposed to do, check with you? quite obvious that you would get too stressed out if you had to make a decision - and that is assuming that you even have the mental ability to make a decision.

Yeah, lets save the city money on health insurance because we can give it to the Board of Education. There's no savings, the city just keeps spending. If they save a million here they'll just spend it somewhere else. What happened to all of th money the unions gave back? Are taxes didn't go down so it must have just been wasted away. Nice job city council, keep spending.

I understand the fact that Bristol needs to save money anyway it can but the fact is our compulsivespending politicians will only spend the savingson another unaffordable project.If Bristol is hurting as bad as our politicians claimWHY are they still pursuing spending moneywe do not have to build 2 new schools?We may need these schools but the fact is Bristol nor the state of Ct. can afford themat this time. I thought Bristol elected at least one self proclaimed fiscal conservative to the city council?Where has he been on this fiscal disaster??I guess the mad dog is really a lap dog.

7:19 You're being a typical hack hypocrite again. You ask why do we have open meetings at all ? And in the same breath you condone this cowardley way of name calling and whining? Do you have the nervve to practice whart you preach about openess? Ho Hum nothing new .

8:44, The children of Bristol would be just fine without 2 new schools but the taxpayers will be poorer because of it. Wake up, Bristol is BROKE the State of Ct. is BROKE. If we could afford it I would agree with building them but the city cannot....read the Bristol Press.If you can't afford it you can't have it!!!I can't understand how people think today when they feel they are entitled to something for nothing or should have something they cannot afford.If this is stone hearted too bad because it is the truth and you know it!!

IN bristol they will take this saving and give it to the school system. We need day care centers in the center of bristol for all the unwed little girls pumping out kids and going on welfare. Then we could send them to school to learn the system and screw us tax payers. Ever wonder how all these kids walking around bristol day and night live.

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